Brokeback Mountain

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It's sort of one of those "what's all the fuss about" movies, bcause it's really such a small film, that succeeds entirely on the smallest details of both performance and design since so much of the film is about reticence both necessary and not. I mean, yeah it's "the gay cowboy" movie, but I recommend this film to the dissatisified.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

I completely and totally agree and am also very much looking forward to seeing this film. However, a failed romance need not always end in death. More importantly, I'm not in any way complaining about this film, but about the lack of any alternative to gay male romance ending in death. The percentage of films about tragic het romances where one of the people involved dies is significantly lower that the percentage of queer (and especially gay male) romances where one of the people dies.

That said, I'm not complaining about this wonderful-sounding film, but about the lack of other tragic or non-tragic alternatives to having at least one gay man die.

And while someone more tolerant of the romantic comedy or other lighter genre could argue we need more queer films in those categories

I completely understand that statement. A completely unrelated complaint of mine is about the alternatives presented in modern film of romantic tragedy and modern romantic comedy. Prior to the mid 1960s, there was no shortage of deeply romantic films that portrayed positive romance that were not comedies of the sort so popular and common today. Dear gods, I'd like to see more positive portrayals of romance that didn't start with the two people hating each other or involve them deliberately humiliating each other. Also, as I mentioned here, I wish that modern het romantic films were not quite the cesspits of sexism that they so often are. However, none of that has anything to do with Brokeback Mountain, which I'm very much looking forward to seeing.